walters@oksce1.okstate.edu (Harold G. Walters) (12/18/89)
For those of you who want the latest and greatest version of PAX for
MSDOS, the exe, readme, and man pages, are available for anonymous ftp from
192.31.83.2 vms.ucc.okstate.edu in the file pax2exebeta.arc
*** This version now lets you specify the floppy density for raw ***
*** UN*X type reads/writes on the command line. No more floppy swapping!! ***
From the readme.1st file...
This is a beta test version of the MSDOS version of PAX version 2 beta.
See the README file and the man pages for more information on how to run
PAX, TAR, and CPIO.
The beta test version has been tested as pax-as-tar and pax-as-cpio on
PCDOS 3.1 on low and high density floppies. If you test it on other
hardware or versions of DOS drop me some e-mail. If you have other
problems drop me some e-mail as well. It all works as far as I can tell.
Be sure to use a blocking factor of 20 with pax-as-tar and B with
pax-as-cpio for best performance.
--
Harold G. Walters Reply to walters@1.ce.okstate.edu NOT the return address
School of Civil Engineering okstate!oksce1!walters
Oklahoma State University "If all you have is a hammer,
Stillwater, OK 74078 everything looks like a nail".ghodsi@shire.cs.psu.edu (Mohammad Ghodsi) (01/01/90)
> For those of you who want the latest and greatest version of PAX for > MSDOS, the exe, readme, and man pages, are available for anonymous ftp from > 192.31.83.2 vms.ucc.okstate.edu in the file pax2exebeta.arc > *** This version now lets you specify the floppy density for raw *** > *** UN*X type reads/writes on the command line. No more floppy swapping!! *** My e-mail to Harold bounced back so I am posting. My attempts to download pax from this node have been unsuccessful. Does anybody know other ftp'able siltes where this beast is available? If not, could someone please send a copy to me? > -- > Harold G. Walters Reply to walters@1.ce.okstate.edu NOT the return address thank you -- Mohammad Ghodsi ghodsi@shire.cs.psu.edu
rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) (01/08/90)
I got the beta version of pax 2.0 from Harold Walters. After removing some bugs I found it working well. It still contains this somewhat complicated DOS dio library for direct disk access to tar and cpio archives on Unix disks. It still requires a DOS DIR on a DOS disk with the same density before access to the Unix disks. I removed the dio library and wrote my own which automatically detects the disk density and format. It allows even access to 720k 80 track disks on a 1200k drive. Also, it runs on OS/2 protected mode too ! I created a bound version which runs on both OS/2 protected mode and DOS real mode operating systems with direct floppy disk access. If there is enough interest, I could send it to Rahul Dhesi for posting on comp.binaries.ibm.pc (should I include sources ?). Note: (not related to pax) I would like to see more sources included with the binaries on c.b.i.pc because many people (like me) would like to port them to other systems or enhance them for special needs. Kai Uwe Rommel Munich rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de